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The Girl Scouts of Western Ohio enters the new year celebrating its 100th season of selling cookies, according to a news release.

"A century ago, girls started participating in what would evolve into the largest entrepreneurial training program for girls in the world: the Girl Scout Cookie Program, through which girls learn the essential skills they need to become effective leaders, manage finances, and gain self-sufficiency and confidence in handling money," GSWO said in the release.

Classic-selling cookies, like Thin Mints and Trefoils, will be joined in this "banner year," the organization said, by the debut of the S'mores cookie.

Abigail, a 9-year-old Junior Girl Scout said she think it's great to celebrate Girl Scouts' 100th year of cookie sales with the new S'mores cookie because they are a "yummy part of Girl Scouting."

"When we sell cookies, we are doing what all the Girl Scouts of years' past did," she said. "They were girls just like I am and my mom was."

However, in particular, Abigail has a preference for the TagAlong.

According to GSWO, the first known sale of cookies occurred in 1917 when the Misletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies and sold them at a local high school cafeteria.

On Feb. 17, 1924, the first available mention in The Enquirer about the Girl Scouts selling cookies locally came with news of a rally involving singing, first aid, knot tying, child nurse and the cookies on sale.

“Girl Scouts of Western Ohio has a rich history of girls selling cookies in the Cincinnati area,” said Roni Luckenbill, CEO for GSWO.

Before cookies, the Girl Scouts in Cincinnati helped by canning garden produce, according to a summer of 1917 Enquirer report. The canned vegetables would then be turned over to the luncheons of local public schools. At the time, 30 troops were in Cincinnati, representing 400 girls ranging in ages from 10 to 18 years.

This year, Katelyn Scott, the communications and marketing manager for GSWO, said 1,100 troops in Cincinnati are participating, which is about 10,000 Girl Scouts to sell cookies.

Nearly 1 million Girl Scouts participate in the program, generating $800 million in cookies sales from 50 million households during the season, according to the release.

The season officially kicks off on Jan. 6 and will last until March 26.

Scott said the cookies "power amazing adventures and life-changing opportunities for Girl Scouts."

"All of the net revenue raised through the Girl Scout Cookie Program — 100 percent of it — stays in the community," she said in an email to The Enquirer. "Troops decide how to use the funds they raise, including buying supplies for service projects that will improve their community, attending summer camp and covering the cost of a troop adventure."

Clara, a fourth grade, first-year junior, said her grandma and mom were both Girl Scouts, so it's "pretty cool" they all got to sell cookies.

"My troop used cookie profits to go to COSI [Museum in Columbus] overnight last year and it was so much fun," she said. "My mom told me lots of stories of when she slept overnight at COSI as a Girl Scout. I like being a Girl Scout because we get to camp, learn new things, and meet new people.

She also likes the experience because she gets time with her mom, who is a leader in the troop.

In early 2015, Troop 49632 in Lower Price Hill made headlines for not only being the first traditional troop in that location in a while, but also for attempting to sell 1,500 boxes of cookies to get to summer camp. After the story, readers helped get the troop there with sales topping more than 5,000, along with donated camping supplies.

When the sale this year begins, you can click or tap here to see what cookies will be available locally.